MG Zimeta
@mgzimeta.bsky.social
Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Philosophy PhD | Words in LRB, Paris Review, The Atlantic etc | Broadcasts for BBC TV and radio | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social
It's all getting a bit Cersei Lannister.
January 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It's all getting a bit Cersei Lannister.
I've put a video clip of Pepper here (G-drive link): tinyurl.com/brhxbrdy
0:40 for its hallucinating movements, 5:30 for is it more intelligent than humans, and 7:00 for do androids dream of electric sheep.
(The camera's uneven because I was filming for my notes: just pretend its arthouse...)
🧵2/2
0:40 for its hallucinating movements, 5:30 for is it more intelligent than humans, and 7:00 for do androids dream of electric sheep.
(The camera's uneven because I was filming for my notes: just pretend its arthouse...)
🧵2/2
MG Zimeta - talking to Pepper robot (Tokyo Oct 2023) - article Among Robots (LRB blog Jan 2025).mp4
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January 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've put a video clip of Pepper here (G-drive link): tinyurl.com/brhxbrdy
0:40 for its hallucinating movements, 5:30 for is it more intelligent than humans, and 7:00 for do androids dream of electric sheep.
(The camera's uneven because I was filming for my notes: just pretend its arthouse...)
🧵2/2
0:40 for its hallucinating movements, 5:30 for is it more intelligent than humans, and 7:00 for do androids dream of electric sheep.
(The camera's uneven because I was filming for my notes: just pretend its arthouse...)
🧵2/2
You do matter.
The list of contributors and the stats on their different kinds of backgrounds and identities (ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, disability) is an incredibly powerful statement about what is actually possible:
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The list of contributors and the stats on their different kinds of backgrounds and identities (ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, disability) is an incredibly powerful statement about what is actually possible:
www.workingclassicists.com/a-periodic-t...
A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology — Working Classicists
Information on Working Classicists’ upcoming book: A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology
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January 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You do matter.
The list of contributors and the stats on their different kinds of backgrounds and identities (ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, disability) is an incredibly powerful statement about what is actually possible:
www.workingclassicists.com/a-periodic-t...
The list of contributors and the stats on their different kinds of backgrounds and identities (ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, disability) is an incredibly powerful statement about what is actually possible:
www.workingclassicists.com/a-periodic-t...
Why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site....
January 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site....
👋My PhD was in philosophy of literature - rhetoric, metaphor, jokes. I left academia a few years ago and am now a journalist. I'd say the balance of my practice has shifted from "philosophy of literature" to "literature as philosophy", though.
January 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
👋My PhD was in philosophy of literature - rhetoric, metaphor, jokes. I left academia a few years ago and am now a journalist. I'd say the balance of my practice has shifted from "philosophy of literature" to "literature as philosophy", though.
Dad jokes: sequence of starter packs from @adamcsharp.bsky.social
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Also: why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site.
🥁
#Genius
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Also: why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site.
🥁
#Genius
Here’s a starter pack of dad jokers. If you want to be included, reply with a dad joke and I’ll add my favourite ten. I’ll kick things off with the best dad joke I’ve ever come up with (so all downhill from here)…
Why should a flat battery in a car be called a flattery?
Because it gets you nowhere
Why should a flat battery in a car be called a flattery?
Because it gets you nowhere
January 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Dad jokes: sequence of starter packs from @adamcsharp.bsky.social
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Also: why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site.
🥁
#Genius
bsky.app/profile/adam...
Also: why did the chicken cross the internet? To get to the other site.
🥁
#Genius
Global souths: starter pack from @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sout...
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Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies.
Please help us build this list.
Suggestions very welcome.
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Please help us build this list.
Suggestions very welcome.
go.bsky.app/xCeFhi
January 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#writingcommunity
#amquerying
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January 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Black memoir and nonfiction writers: starter pack from @timoriamcqueen.bsky.social
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#BlackWriters #BlackBookSky
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Working class literature: starter pack from @kovesi.bsky.social
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Here's the beginnings of a starter pack of people working on, working in, thinking about, working-class literature. Writers and critics and allies and groups - please send me more names of accounts on Bluesky & I'll add them of course.
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January 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Working class literature: starter pack from @kovesi.bsky.social
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#WorkingClassWriter
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